Sheila Anastas:  

My family moved to the Northern Virginia area after Brookley AFB closed in 1963. My father transferred to GSA in D.C, given the other choice of Ogden, UT. I attended Annandale and Loudoun Co. High Schools in VA, and attended college in D.C. I received my A.B.A at Benjamin Franklin University (now part of George Washington University), and went to work for a variable annuity company in McLean and Falls Church, VA. I moved to Hartford, CT when the company was purchased by The AEtna. I met my husband Larry Garstka at AEtna and married late, in 1982. (I kept my maiden name.) We have a son who is a mechanical engineer. He designs micro-valves. We have a young grandson and granddaughter. I went to night school at the University of Hartford and eventually obtained my B.S. and M.S.P.A in 1983. I also obtained a SECO Series 6 license and was an SEC securities accountant, accounting systems designer, and financial accounting department director for AEtna. After 22 years, I left to form my own LLC. I spent a year+ working with forensic accountants, while managing potentially criminal staff for the bankruptcy trustee in an infamous Northeast bankruptcy ponzi scheme. We had federal marshals guarding staff on an unmarked floor of a building! I performed some crisis management consulting after that experience. I began working for Science Park Development Corporation in New Haven, CT after a search committee sought me for my experience in crisis management. The not-for-profit is charged with renovating and preserving the former Winchester Rifle 40 acre factory complex into Life Sciences and residential apartments. I worked there for...Expand for more